Kepler Verge
Location:	Nineteen Pillars of Ascension / Milky Way Galaxy Bastion Space/ Milky Way Galaxy Flarunium Realm / Milky Way Galaxy Inner Council space / Milky Way Galaxy Attican Traverse / Milky Way Galaxy Dominion space / Milky Way Galaxy
System(s):	Herschel Newton
Relay(s):	Newton Relay
Population:	Around 15,000
Species:	Rachni Quarian Human
Affiliation:	First Rachni Collective Greater Quarian Republic Systems Alliance Systems Coalition Unified Galactic Republics
Tier:	Tier VIII
Capital:	Ontarom

Kepler Verge is a cluster located in the core of the Attican Traverse. In the asari cycle, the Kepler Verge was colonized by the First Rachni Collective in 192 BCE, forming up the southern sector of their domain as they continued to rapidly expand throughout the galaxy. After the Collective's destruction in 53 CE, the Kepler Verge fell within Council jurisdiction, but was ceded to the Attican Traverse buffer zone as per the conditions of the Treaty of Etamis in 812 CE. The colony would be lightly colonized by the Systems Alliance in the early 2170s, with a major Alliance military presence in the Newton system, with a communications outpost established on Ontarom. A Reaper fleet ambushed the Alliance Eighth Fleet over Ontarom in 2186 CE, inflicting heavy casualties on the Alliance forces there before they withdrew from the cluster. The Systems Coalition would officially make the Kepler Verge a part of its territory just before the Post-Apocalyptic War, only losing it to the DDF during the Dominion Civil War before having it returned to their authority afterwards.